Bluff, challenge, survive — be the last seat with an influence left.

The five influences

How a turn works

1. Two hidden cards, two coins. Your cards are your influence. Lose both and you are out of the game.
2. On your turn, take one action. Income takes 1 coin · Foreign Aid takes 2 · or claim a role for the bigger moves.
3. Claim any role, whether you hold it or not — that is the bluff. Tax claims a Duke, Steal a Captain, Exchange an Ambassador.
4. Anyone may challenge a claim. If the claimer cannot show the card they lose an influence; if they can, the challenger loses one instead.
5. Some actions can be blocked. … A block may be challenged as well.
6. Coup costs 7 coins and cannot be blocked or challenged. Assassinate costs 3 — and those coins stay spent either way.
7. At 10 coins you must Coup. Whoever loses an influence always chooses which card to give up.

Playing solo? The bots follow these same rules — they just think in about a second.